My mother language is Qazaq. My mother missed speaking it when living away from Qazaqstan. My grandparents on my mother’s side (apa and ata) spoke Qazaq to me so I can understand the quotidian. It’s a language of music, wit, and humour, thank you for existing and persisting
Today is
#MotherLanguageDay
— a good time to read beautiful & moving essays from
#riverinanocean
(by Gopika Jadeja, Suneela Mubayi
@sunbula
, Iryn Tushabe
@wordsweaver
& Rahat Kurd
@blueglasstulips
) that disrupt & complicate any easy relation between language, gender & nation.
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@DurdiyevaSelbi
Thank you for sharing these complicated feelings of connection & loss with languages, families, literatures, the quotidian…
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@_ska4ka
A lot of people in Almaty thought I was Qazaq until they hear my name, that’s when it gets confusing 🙈🙈
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@ortjomi
My father is Turkmen and I grew up in Turkmenistan. I am of mixed ethnic background, I also have Tatar and Uzbek great-grandmothers
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